and now for a truly beautiful story… - that i hope you enjoy…
back ground…
antonio esfandiari, me, and my girl were on a friend of mines totally
fat luxury jet going from turks and caicos in the west indies… back
to LA.. (there was a wpt turny down there that was totally fun… and
only had 137 entrants for the event – a great chance to do something…
but alas… nada)…. Anyway.. back to the story…
so we are flying back and decide to start a 25 50 no limit hold em
game 4 handed… (me, Jennifer, Antonio, and Richard - u don’t know
him)
we played for 2 hrs…. i was up about 20k, antonio was stuck about
10k.. and jennifer and richard were both stuck about 5 k each…
then we had a truly killer dinner…
then we went back to the game… (the plane was so spacious that we
just left the poker table be while we went to the dining area for our
meal) nice.
antonio reloads and is playing a bit faster than usual…
i have position on him and his extra aggression works out nicely for
me… he gets stuck another 5k over the course of the next hour or
so…(4 k to me and 1 k to jennifer)
….the plane is finally starting to land back on the west coast…we
see that the game has maybe one two or three hands left in the session
jennifer with the button raises to 200 with 2s 4s…(~20k chip stack)
antonio calls with kc 10c (~16,500 chip stack)(we don’t know if this
was his actual hand.. but it was what he had us believe….. for all
we know.. he ended the hand with a 4 high flush… maybe a pair of
aces with a high club….who knows?..)
flop comes
ac 4s 4c
antonio checks
jennifer bets 300
antonio raises to 1000
jennifer re-raises to about 2800
turn is the 2c
jennifer has 44422 (full house)
antonio has a flush…(we think)
antonio checks
jennifer bets 5000
antonio calls
river is the 9d
antonio goes all in for his last 8,700
jennifer calls and shows her full house
antonio mucks…
..(now it is killing me that she didn’t just wait til he tabled his
hand… but it was one of those moments where his whole body just
collapsed when she called and it was obvious that she had won.. so she
showed… but we will always wonder what his hand actually was)
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jennifer upticks 16,500 and felts antonio…
game ends - it was the last hand of a 7 day trip… so sexy!!!!
plane lands
phil is joyous
phil is up 28k
jennifer is up 9,500
antonio is down 30k exactly
antonio mumbles some such bs like “i never win” realizing how
expensive this luxurious jet ride actaully was……
life is good
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why was this hand so nice…?
on the jet ride (and in life) every time that antonio beats jennifer
or bluffs her successfully he chortles and giggles his ass off,
he knows that it hurts me to see my girl get hurt in poker hands by him…
full house vs whatever for a nice 16,500 dollar uptick…
it was NICE…. very nice…
if jesus was there he would have agreed
if ghandi was there he would have felt the purity of the moment
if buddah himself was there he would have heard the sound of one hand clapping
October 8th, 2007 at 4:35 am
God, Phil Laak, you are too hilarious. Please, please keep up the entries.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
What a great story! Love the line “if jesus was there he would have agreed.” Classic.
October 10th, 2007 at 5:08 am
I have a similar story only different. Instead of a plane we were in the lunch room at the office on a Tuesday night. And instead of 25/50 we were playing with the money we would buy beer with later on anyway.
My wife busted a guy who has slowed rolled me in every hand we have ever played (nice guy, just loves to hold peoples attention). She turned a straight and he rivered trips. So damned proud.
Good times.
October 10th, 2007 at 8:55 am
More blog posts about your crazy wild tilly filled exploits!
October 16th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Yea plz keep the posts coming… We are hooked !
November 14th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
hey phil…i am a great fan of yours and antonio…i watch “i bet you” all the time and i love watching you guys play poker…i just want to tell you how i got to this website…i picked up a bluff magazine like a month ago…and today i read your article about you being on the loveline show…so i got home…and started listening…loved it of course…and then you guys mentioned your blogged…so i checked it out too…anyway…you and antonio are great…hope to meet you at the tables one day
February 29th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
vintage phil!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Now Phil you know it wasn’t that he was beat, it was that he was beat by a girl. LOL. You should see the looks I get when I play. Makes you remember the old phrase ‘if looks could kill.’ I may be an angel but I do have my downfalls.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Hey Phil,
You’ve come a long way from betting on sushi. I told you you would never be a success if you didn’t get your life in order.
Take care bro…
Mark
June 17th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
The moral of the story is that you need to wait to see your opponent’s hand if you call! Free information for you if you win and if you lose you get to fold and deny the other players a look at how you are playing.
I really wish you still updated your blog but I guess I can live with it seeing as how “I Bet You” is up on youtube now. Someday after many thousands more hands and hours of study I hope to be skilled enough to sit across from you and lose myself a buyin or three.